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Deep learning for countering energy theft – a hybrid long-short term memory approach
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RESEARCH CONTENT: Energy theft is a critical issue for power system operators and billions of pounds are lost to it every year. This article in our Royal Holloway security series describes a convolutional long short-term memory-based energy theft detection model to identify electricity thieves.
Posted: 26 Apr 2022 | Published: 26 Apr 2022

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CIO Trends #10: Benelux
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EGUIDE: If CIOs ever needed a reminder of the predatory cyber criminals that circle their organisations, Travelex's woes is a big one. Also find out how close autonomous ships are to regularly docking in Dutch ports. Read more about it in this issue of our CIO Trends Benelux series.
Posted: 08 Feb 2021 | Published: 16 Jan 2020

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Multifactor authentication: What are the pros and cons?
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INFOGRAPHIC: One of the biggest shortcomings of traditional user ID and password logins is that passwords can be easily compromised, potentially costing organizations millions of dollars. In this infographic we outline the key pros and cons of adopting multifactor authentication to protect users' identities and secure your systems.
Posted: 05 Feb 2023 | Published: 06 Feb 2023

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SIEM, SOAR or both? Our security experts weigh in
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EGUIDE: In this E-Guide we turn to the Computer Weekly Security Think Tank, a hand-picked panel of cyber security insiders, experts, analysts, and advocates with over a century's worth of collective experience between them, to explore the topic of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), and Security Orchestration, Automation and Response, (SOAR).
Posted: 08 Feb 2021 | Published: 21 Dec 2020

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Zero trust: Taking back control of IT security
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EGUIDE: In this E-Guide we go in-depth to explore the concept of zerotrust. First, Cliff Saran explores some of the basics of zerotrust, exploring how the advent of mobile computing, remote working, and software-as-a-service (SaaS) had already started the shift in security focus away from the perimeter – even before the Covid-19 pandemic.
Posted: 08 Feb 2021 | Published: 18 Jan 2021

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VMs vs. containers: Which is better for security?
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EGUIDE: Practitioners are mandated to make technology risk decisions, and many of those decisions involve one or both of virtualization and containerization technologies. When comparing VMs vs. containers, it is natural to ask, which is more secure? Find out in this e-guide.
Posted: 08 Feb 2021 | Published: 02 Oct 2019

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Royal Holloway: Purple team playbook – threat modeling for security testing
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RESEARCH CONTENT: The reality of information security is that it is impossible to completely ensure that an attacker cannot get into the corporate network. Instead, companies should look at how they prepare and react to security attacks by gaining an understanding of how cyber criminals work by combining the talents of red teams and blue teams
Posted: 08 Feb 2021 | Published: 15 Jul 2020

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Jargon Buster Guide to Post Quantum Cryptography
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EGUIDE: This Jargon Buster will help you to understand the key concepts of quantum computing and why businesses should be acting now to ensure they are able to encrypt sensitive data in a secure way in a post-quantum era.
Posted: 08 Feb 2021 | Published: 02 Oct 2018

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Manchester United praised for swift response to cyber attack
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EGUIDE: The Theatre of Dreams briefly turned into The Theatre of Nightmares last week as Manchester United Football Club suffered a cyber-attack on their systems. This e-Guide dives into more depth about how the attack happened and what Manchester United's cyber security team did, in order to prevent a loss of data and keep a clean sheet.
Posted: 08 Feb 2021 | Published: 27 Nov 2020

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SOAR vs. SIEM: Commonalities and Differences
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EGUIDE: While some IT shops could get away with using a SIEM or a SOAR tool, they are best deployed as complementary products. Although these tools have major commonalities, they also have distinct differences. In this e-guide, learn all about the key similarities and differences in SIEM and SOAR.
Posted: 08 Feb 2021 | Published: 22 Oct 2019

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